William Wesley Peters belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists William Wesley Peters as American architect.
William Wesley Peters was born at Indiana in 1912. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Evansville.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as engineer and architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
William Wesley Peters died in 1991, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Evansville
